quintessence是什么意思？

quintessence

英[kwɪnˈtesns] 美[kwɪnˈtɛsəns]

• n. 典范，完美典型，精华，精髓；

副词：quintessentially;

形容词：quintessential;

例句

• John is the quintessence of good manners. 约翰是礼貌的典范.
• It was the quintessence of an English manor house. 那是典型的英式庄园宅第。
• The theory of the dictatorship of the proletariat is the quintessence of Marxism. 无产阶级专政的理论是马克思主义的精髓.
• ...an old stone cottage, the quintessence of rural England. 一座堪称英格兰乡村风格之典范的石砌农舍
• He was the quintessence of all that Eva most deeply loathed. 他是伊娃最深恶痛绝的那种人中的典型。

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-UNCOUNT
  典范;典型
  The quintessence of something is the most perfect or typical example of it.
  例句
  He was the quintessence of all that Eva most deeply loathed. 他是伊娃最深恶痛绝的那种人中的典型。
• N-UNCOUNT
  精髓;精华;本质
  The quintessence of something is the aspect of it which seems to represent its central nature.
  例句
  ...an old stone cottage, the quintessence of rural England. 一座堪称英格兰乡村风格之典范的石砌农舍

英汉词典释义

• n.
  典范,完美典型
  John is the quintessence of good manners. 约翰是礼貌的典范。
• adj.

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. the fifth and highest element after air and earth and fire and water; was believed to be the substance composing all heavenly bodies
  2. the purest and most concentrated essence of something
  3. the most typical example or representative of a type

行业词典

• 医学： 浓浸膏，浓缩物：某种物质的浓缩提取物；